Grand Union Orchestra

There is no musical organisation on the planet quite like the Grand Union Orchestra. For over 30 years, we have brought together singers and instrumentalists from all over the world to create spectacular live shows, combining music and theatre to reflect vividly and express truthfully the society we live in today.

Many Grand Union musicians and singers are first-generation migrants, with unique skills and experience to pass on to the second and future generations. This has always an important element in our artistic practice, and we are making it a central feature of all our work for the coming year.

GRAND UNION'S work falls into six main strands

Our
core musicians and singers introduce themselves in this 6-minute video, describe the Orchestra's music and why it is important to them, and can be seen in action in 20 minutes of exhilarating highlights from Undream'd Shores:

At a time when our society seems in danger of tearing itself apart, we need music and the arts more than ever. So let's remind ourselves of all that's good and positive in multicultural Britain today, and some of the benefits of living in a society shaped by migration: